Christopher Lee studied music composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College, Indiana University, and Rice University, where he held a doctoral fellowship. He is a winner of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award, the Kuttner String Quartet Competition, and the Lee Goldstein Memorial Prize in Composition from Baldwin-Wallace College.
His music has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Speculum Musicae, the California E.A.R. Unit, the Woodlands Symphony (Houston), the Omaha Chamber Music Society/Analog Arts Ensemble, the 20/21 Ensemble, VOX, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, the wind ensembles of Illinois State University and Baldwin-Wallace College and the Enso and Kuttner Quartets. He has been a featured composer at the MusicX Festival at the University of Cincinnati and The California E.A.R. Unit’s composer seminar at Arcosanti. His electroacoustic music has been featured at the IDEAS Festival of Digital Arts and the LaTex Electroacoustic Music Festival. One of these works, "Bounce", has been choreographed by Houston dance artist Nancy Ku. "Skywriting" for alto flute has been recorded by international soloist Linda Wetherill. He is currently on the composition, music theory and percussion faculty of the Beck Center for the Arts in Cleveland, Ohio.